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Born 1641 • England
Died January 1, 1716 (aged 75) • London • England
Notable Works “Love in a Wood; or, St. James’s Park” • “The Country-Wife” • “The Gentleman Dancing-Master” • “The Plain-Dealer”
Henry Fielding, frontispiece to Fielding's Works (1st ed., 1762), engraving by James Basire after a drawing by William Hogarth
Henry Fielding
English author
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
William Congreve, oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1709; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
William Congreve
English dramatist
Sir John Vanbrugh
British dramatist and architect
John Gay, oil painting by William Aikman; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
John Gay
British author
Thomas Nashe
English writer
Thomas Lodge
English writer
John Marston
British dramatist
Noël Coward
Noël Coward
English playwright, actor, and composer
George Gascoigne
George Gascoigne
English poet
Thomas Shadwell, engraving.
Thomas Shadwell
English author
W. Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham
British writer
Etherege, Sir George: The Man of Mode; or, Sir Fopling Flutter
Sir George Etherege
British dramatist
Samuel Foote
British actor
Richard Savage
English writer
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Anglo-Irish playwright
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
Oliver Goldsmith, oil painting from the studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Oliver Goldsmith
Anglo-Irish author
Behan
Brendan Behan
Irish author
Lyndsay, drawing after a woodcut on the title page of Lyndsay's Workes, 1634
Sir David Lyndsay
Scottish poet